Intrapericardial foregut cyst associated with intrauterine death.
Intrapericardial developmental foregut cysts are rare and are most frequently incidental findings at necropsy in adults. A 29 year old Asian woman delivered a 24 week stillborn fetus seven days after diagnosis of intrauterine death caused by rupture of a foregut cyst. Multiple cysts occupied the wall of the right atrium and its rupture caused haemopericardium and cardiac tamponade.
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Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000209:etiology*; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000196:embryology* / Q000473:pathology; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000150:complications / Q000196:embryology* / Q000473:pathology; D011247:Pregnancy